Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:23:23 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unknown mailer error 126 : sendmail issue? Message-ID: <200201292323.g0TNNQE01519@lists.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <15447.11282.817897.248752@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: <200201292251.g0TMpHE01182@lists.unixathome.org>
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On 29 Jan 2002 at 15:11, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > dan> /usr/local/majordomo/wrapper: permission denied > > dan> -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom daemon 7326 Dec 15 15:54 wrapper > > From the FreeBSD release notes: Gregory: you are a sendmail gawd. And I'm a pillock for not reading the release notes. My apologies. > The smmsp and mailnull users have been added to /etc/master.passwd. > In the absence of a confDEF_USER_ID setting, by default, sendmail > will use the mailnull user for extra security. Previously, if the > mailnull user did not exist, the daemon user was used. This change > may generate some permissions issues when mailing to files or to > programs (such as mail/majordomo). The previous behavior can be > restored by adding the following line to a system's *.mc > configuration file: > define(`confDEF_USER_ID', `daemon') I haven't used a .mc file in quite some time. I'll try the freebsd.mc one and go from there. Hopefully I won't wind up breaking my mail server as well. If I were to not go the .mc route, what does the above statement translate to in a .cf file? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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